About Kristen
Dr. Kristen Dreyfus is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing relationship strain, life changes, anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related concerns. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions.
Parents and adults who feel overwhelmed by stress, grief, or parenting pressures may find her steady, empathetic style easy to work with. Dr. Dreyfus draws on 17 years of clinical work in North Carolina to guide conversations about communication, intimacy, and career stress.
Background and approach
She listens for patterns that keep people stuck and offers small, doable changes that can improve day-to-day life. Sessions often include attention to how past relationships affect current ones and to ways to manage strong emotions. Her approach blends attachment-based ideas with emotionally-focused methods and mindfulness practices.
That means she pays attention to emotional needs, helps people name and share feelings, and teaches simple mind-body skills for calming stress. She also uses solution-focused techniques to set clear goals and find practical next steps. Many clients come for help with family conflict, parenting strain, sleep problems, or grief.
Others seek support for managing chronic illness, compassion fatigue, or issues tied to identity and belonging. Dr. Dreyfus works to make therapy concrete and relevant to everyday life.
Her practice includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions are provided in English and follow the licensing standards for an NC LMFT. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and scheduling is arranged according to therapist availability.
How these approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current needs and reactions. In practice this means noticing patterns in connection and safety, then trying new ways of communicating and relating to close others to reduce repeated conflicts or distance.Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people name and share core emotions and needs. Sessions guide clients to identify underlying feelings, practice expressing them, and try small relational experiments to improve closeness and understanding.
Mindfulness Therapy brings simple attention and breathing practices into daily life. These tools help with anxiety, sleep problems, and stress by training awareness of the body and thoughts and offering short exercises to calm reactivity.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Decisions about which techniques to emphasize are made collaboratively and adjusted over time as needs change.
Online sessions offer flexibility and practical benefits. Video calls provide a face-to-face experience for deeper emotional work, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat or text-based messaging supports quick reflections, scheduling touchpoints, or ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to try different formats to see what helps most.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Coping with life changes
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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